the latest news in the week's a top stories here on our team more accusations of a clampdown on freedom in egypt as a popular social networking site to use by the end to regime movement is shut down amid fresh demonstrations against islamic government. while similar scenes have been unfolding in the birthplace of the arab spring in geneva where protests against the government to ignited by the murder of a prominent opposition figure. songs and protests as a mozzie a hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing while senators shy from probing his

extensive history of drugs and torture and targeted executions. a divisive and tough negotiator the e.u. budget a risk on revelator with the european parliament are threatening to veto the austerity written package. plus so russia's a black sea resort of sorties the appraisal one year to go before the start of the most expensive winter olympics ever a major major reshuffle is along the game's officials with a key organizer of quiet. it's nine am here in moscow you're watching r t with me tomorrow it's it's good to have you with us. it's been another regular restless week for egypt with plumes of

smoke and teargas covering the country's main cities following street battles between anti-government protesters and police. armed with stones and petrol bombs have been unleashing their anger against islamist president mohamed morsi the political turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube for a month for posting a controversial and to islam film which is a reporter from the capital cairo on how the motion has been perceived by the opposition. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements to see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the ships in china justifying sex mob attacks on

egyptian protesters in tahrir square what we really feel here in egypt is this will only fuel further violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey recently five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that the president had morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between i'm sick of protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace groups attack the building with molotov there pushed by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. egyptian journalist and blogger while eskandar says the nothings changed since the

revolution which overthrew the autocratic rule of president mubarak two years ago. what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule in much like the mubarak. government and i think the way the political actors see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not sign freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule one other thing we've seen as well is of admins of facebook pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted and we've we're seeing more of these kind of clampdowns either in the physical realm and now

they're moving on to doing it technically through you know through you tube and various other sites we can expect more of that. another country that still looking for stability following the arab spring is tunisia the countries witnessed public fury this week following the assassination of a key opposition figure on wednesday crowds of protesters from the streets of the capital tunis appending the blameful chokri belaid murder on the islamist government the demonstrators made a tough response from riot police a time to see that the tension the prime minister has pledged to form in nonpartizan government next week ahead of a snap election in the proposal however was rejected by the country's ruling and. international relations professor mark alderman says of a government a will now struggle to survive. this it had been presented as the nearest thing to a success story that had been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these decision disappointments with the failure to make life better life requests and the sense that there is

a trajectory that takes many people as your wife did it strike you one of the places where violence and the fall wish to two zero zero zero. it is lavished it can see things from the engine do but. you know at a party so there may be resentment against what may have been the biggest single call to put north mobile majority and i think the general feeling is that level of support is slipped since those election returns about the coming elections and whether we will get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps change. mali and rebels like carrying up for terror warfare while civilians are suffering in a worsening the military in crisis was supplies lacking and most delivery routes blocked by the wall we've got the story late. and predicted years of belt tightening and severe austerity cuts here the irish tens of thousands of angry citizens protests in cities all across the country against the cuts but

some experts saying all government efforts to way to end the crisis i know they. are a champion of joint strikes and barack obama's pick to head the cia john brennan faces senate confirmation hearing this week the says assaulted a hog but it wasn't lawmakers who were the most vocal from the onset given catcalls erupted from the audience until the judge ordered to the protests to be removed lawmakers then poked and prodded brennan on torture cia shot comings and targeted executions though seemingly reluctant to challenge him on his answers but it given his performance at the senate activist and author david swanson a surprise he was nominated in the first place was going someone who was deemed unacceptable for years freeview speaks most of his involvement in torture and rendition is now acceptable speak closely engages in its program of murder and the goodness of the murder outweighs the badness of the torture recent polls found that

well only twenty four percent of americans support killing americans it's drones eighty three percent support. only not americans with drones there is a clear bias you can do the math and see what percentage of americans are bigots were i dragged before us court charged with mass murder i could not say your honor i have a memo was drafted explaining why this is ok and a president should not be able to do that either but that seems to be where the debate is going on. a close sharing now awaits john brennan in order to i am sensitive technologies but already speculation is why five a what direction he might take the cia but on the issue of drones as are his gadgets as you can report his confirmation could only broaden the horizon for america's unmanned paint. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream with drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing of drones are more properly titled remotely

piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and it's this man many pakistani would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote chance of a grown up more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many

cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist. tippity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives this to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggest the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to of thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s.

has said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world bombing has redefined war there an intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand rows in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of

course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to go. well drones aren't the only thing about the cia causing controversy at the moment and next hour we'll tell you how thousands of americans are forced to take lie detector tests to keep their jobs often having to answer very intimate questions. a twenty five hour marathon off talks snubs and haggling have left you with a new budget a bagel one that's a been described as perfect for nobody coming in at nine hundred sixty billion euros it's the first time the block spending plan has been cut in the history the differences of opinion where visible or long

a joke graphical to do with traditionally wealthier countries from the north are led by britain calling for cuts in reflection of continents wide austerity but france and poor a e.u. states are resistant with the spread between opposing leaders threaten to undermine the talks and to robert oulds a chair of the brogues a group a think tank or says it always bet the disunity within the. we've seen the limits of integration here we have different national interests clearly colliding and there is the situation for national governments are having to impose austerity across europe not just in the eurozone but also in britain because of course there's just the money available but of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact that for eighteen years now. the european court of order to is haven't been able to sign off awfully the accounts because a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful projects but of course more alarming

really it's also subject to a great deal of force and corruption and that's why eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. well the deal in visions of sweeping cuts to a number of evil projects including integration and infrastructure but millions of euros are reportedly still allocated for a so-called p.r. blitz against the blocs critics on social media websites euro skeptics nigel farage from the u.k. independence of party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the european parliament. but they decided that they got to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says

a lot about the institutions that all what about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of the stars are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament has decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic and this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that so i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself as a person years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens are saying we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and

we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. protests have flooded the streets of at least six cities in ireland with tens of thousands of people demonstrating against austerity measures across the country the public face years of severe cuts after the state's banking system was crippled by the financial crisis medical which. financial adviser says that despite all the government's efforts ireland is still on the road to ruin i think you. could be. wrong with her going to come. forward. who would rather come. from really. from the. from the european we are. we. will come to the bar. or. there's a great deal more are going you are. going to be.

more pressure. going where you could. your of. power. abuse or neglect of the most of vulnerable of patients in a major u.k. hospital be the brunt of lackluster care from help of originals when they needed most that's coming up. also tracking you down in the u.k. parliament is considering new laws that would let of coroutines pry into the private internet communications of the british public. giant clocks on taking all over russia officially starting the countdown until the beginning of the sochi winter olympics the black sea results through a spellbinding celebration marking one year until the games get underway archies enter farmer looks at the construction already completed and how much work is still

ahead. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its elim picturing together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian

olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall. mission we were assessing the amount of. the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price with one point two billion. in one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's limp dick committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten million dollars more than the new summit games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey

and this is the june. the crime the bolshoi i stuck. the bass to reno was she strikes spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will face the into ice hockey finals in the sheeny so tropical like ation the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because they don't pick pockets than by the blacks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid that there is a resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road a really well and i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes so she itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place

a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up there but which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future those brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. self chief. there limp experience even reaching new yorker this week as un chief ban came in joined the celebrations at the organizations headquarters and just to remind those action lovers among you don't want to miss the games tickets already on sale and up

a level on. there can be a clampdown on online privacy in the u.k. that's if the government has it's away a new bill or snoopers charter as it's being dubbed that would let authorities check people's internet and mobile phone use it's in the name of national security but there are serious concerns that it's a step too far executive director of the open rights group jim kill up says that if the bills introduced at the government could get its hands on any information it wants. to snoopers chances a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody online and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about

records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to be tracked is about the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you lead we need the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether they're in any way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about voce proposals. a massive explosion has rocked the area near molly's north korean city of girls some kept ten kilometers away from the french military base it came hours after a suicide bombing was prevented in the same city fears have been escalated throughout the week after islamic extremists leaders vowed to keep up a guerrilla war against french backed local troops security is being tightened at military checkpoints to prevent terror attacks the french army says its military operation is almost complete and it's preparing to hand over to

a un peacekeeping both john that lochlann from the paris institute off democracy and cooperation believes the intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa i think the two main factors in this of france's own design are to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular piece of you know european audience and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated that used to produce but this was america leading from behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it starts to look at the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most political developments. and that's why i say that the of course

the issue of hydrocarbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and even be the decisive factor. huge health care abuse scandal has erupted in the u.k. this week a public inquiry has found hundreds of patients of it at the hands of health workers to toss with looking after them the british prime minister david cameron has officially apologize for the suffering caused but the issue only looks like it's growing archies politico reports from stafford hospital my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight it was just a disaster to have total chaos when you walk through the smelly people you know staff available for one and. those who is left to reach. our entry points new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast dawn.

should be. line right for you see. maybe kerry if you can get into the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term marriage from the now notorious stuff but hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of that dignity so much evil that sandy would describe it would not stand no more wrong. in the most horrible circumstances. no be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as you know

the hospital once it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand p. . people never got to see them discharged from this hospital patients died needlessly after suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to have hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages britain's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions they sold a story. that's a bit of stuff in their view that we've got to make say you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare

of a public inquiry and the media spotlight it hasn't stopped last month it emerged that a former told baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives i need this last point boyko r t stafford. coming up we take an in-depth look at the occupy movement in the us that's after the break here on r.t. .

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